Unit 1: Email addresses

Unit 1: Email addresses

E-mail addresses are essential in business – do you know how to say them correctly?

Email addresses

Every email address contains this sign: . Here are some email addresses:

bob@yahoo.bh
jeffery.amherst@britishcouncil.org
reservations@beachhotelbern.com

As you can see, Bob uses his first name only in his email address: bob@yahoo.bh. Jeffery Amherst uses his first name and surname in his email address: jeffery.amherst@britishcouncil.org. The address reservations@beachhotelbern.com gives the name of the department (Reservations), but not the name of the person.

Saying email addresses

When you say an email address:

  • remember that @ is pronounced ‘at’ and . is pronounced 'dot'. reservations@beachhotelbern.com is ‘reservations at beach hotel bern dot com’
  • sometimes there is a . in the person's name. jeffery.amherst@britishcouncil.org is ‘jeffery dot amherst at british council dot org’
  • _ in an email address is called ‘underscore’. teaching_ job@english_academy.id is ‘teaching underscore job at English underscore academy dot I D’.

Note that it is not necessary to use capital J and A in Jeffery Amherst's email address. People sometimes write email addresses with capital initial letters (Jeffery.Amherst@britishcouncil.org). Sometimes it is all in capitals (JEFFERY.AMHERST@BRITISHCOUNCIL.ORG). However, most people write email addresses without capital letters (jeffery.amherst@britishcouncil.org).

Address books

Email addresses appear in alphabetical order (A–Z). When names start with the same letter, look at the second letter. Here, all the names begin with F, but the second letters are: e i r u. These are in alphabetical order.

Name Email address
Fellah fellah@bqbaccounting.com
Fida fhussein@arabianairways.org
Fred Aston fred99@astoncity.biz
Fudail H fudailh@aglant.net

 

Domain names

Email addresses often include the name of the country that the address is from. This is the final two letters of the address. Here are some examples:

.af Afghanistan
.id Indonesia
.ma Morocco
.se Sweden
.uy Uruguay

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Submitted by Akmal Karimov on Fri, 24/05/2019 - 12:10

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Internet mail service is very convenient. If anyone wants to be with me, write XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. I'm waiting
Hello Akmal Karimov, It's great that you are so keen to practise your English! However, please remember that we have quite strict data control on the site and ask users not to give or ask for personal contact details. This is to comply with legal and good practice requirements regarding privacy and online security. You can read more in our House Rules section: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/house-rules ~ Peter The LearnEnglish Team

Hello Balde

Any kind of personal information that could be used to contact you will not be included in a comment.

Sorry, but this is for legal reasons.

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Submitted by NibrasBM on Tue, 21/05/2019 - 07:02

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This is really useful.

Submitted by OlesyaM on Tue, 05/03/2019 - 13:40

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Thank you very much!
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Submitted by Natig on Mon, 04/03/2019 - 19:34

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It was very easy exercise

Submitted by lilimoon on Sun, 10/02/2019 - 14:00

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It's a very helpful activity!